Report: Distressed RE Nears 20 Percent of Nationwide Sales 

There are motivated home sellers, and then there are motivated home sellers. In this market, that term has taken on new meaning, capturing sales made under borrower duress as well as institutional sellers looking to sell off REO properties in an effort to clear their books. And the number of motivated sellers, by most accounts, has been growing pretty dramatically, pretty much in tandem with declining property values and mushrooming foreclosure totals.